My Life in a few words or less…

Smart Phone Dumb User

Alright, so the use of the word “dumb” may be a bit of an over simplification. I was going for the opposite of Smart. Hence dumb. I actually don’t think I have used the word dumb in a long time. That seems like a good thing.

What did we do before the advent of the smart phone? When the internet and all it’s wonders – facebook, twitter, instagram, pinterest – weren’t readily available everywhere. What did I do when waiting for the doctor? [I actually read a book, made from paper. Weird I know.] I am not going to discuss how technology is taking over our lives and that we need to unplug because we are missing life because we are too busy trying to document it… there is plenty to say on that, and plenty of people have said it already. If you google “technology taking over” there are a billion results. Cah razy. I think technology is a good thing – in moderation. Yes we should put down the phone/tablet and pay attention to our kids – but they are also great to catch those moments that you just have to document. Like this one.

I have a smart phone – a Samsung Galaxy S4 mini – with a touch screen. A gift from my lovely baby brother (who is 27 now, so I probably can stop calling him my ‘baby’ brother). And I quite enjoy it. But this is where the “dumb” comes in. I used to have a black berry, which I was all about and loved. But it died on me. So sad. Sort of. The reason why I loved the BB and am still dumb when it comes to my touchscreen is the absence of BUTTONS. Oh man do I love me some buttons. Typing on a touch screen is torture. If you could only see how much I struggle. I misspell EVERY word. Well, what feels like every word. And I don’t think that I have very fat fingers. A simple “How are you doing?” becomes “hoe ate yui doig”. Forget the question mark.

Oh man, case in point:

Typing fail

I was trying to type “whispering”. And didn’t even get the How right. ugh.

As you can probably guess, I do use the suggested words frequently. But a lot of times, and I do mean a lot, the suggestions that come up are no where near what I was going for.

As one does with smartphones, I check my email and facebook messages on my phone. However, I do not like replying on my phone as you can guess it takes me forever. But because I have everything on my phone I hardly ever go on the lap top (which is a million times easier to type on). So therefore I never reply to people. Sorry if you are waiting for a reply from me. Also sorry if my reply seems short (it is because I probably got fed up with trying to type and kept it to as little words as necessary to get my point across.)